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Managed Care
July 2006
Martin Sipkoff |
Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight Formerly, insurers used to devise new products and processes to attract purchasers. Now more and more employers are going to the plans and insisting on preventive care.   |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2008
Jonathan Katz |
A Healthy Approach to Going Lean Corporate wellness programs encourage employees to manage their health. |
Entrepreneur
September 2008
Karen E. Spaeder |
Shape Up A healthy workplace starts at the top. |
HRO Today
September 2008
Jay Whitehead |
HRO's Performance Enhancer Faced with lagging adoption rates for money-saving employee-participation programs such as wellness solutions, smart HR leaders are using a performance-enhancer of their own. |
HRO Today
September 2008
Korn & Van Noy |
Encouraging Healthy Living By adding an incentive element to their wellness programs, employers raise participation among workers. |
Managed Care
February 2008
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Federal and State Governments Pressed to Give Tax Breaks For Wellness Initiatives Legislators are being urged to reward companies that provide programs for their workers, but success has been mixed |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Adrienne Selko |
Employers Offering Financial Rewards for Healthy Behavior Almost half of companies interviewed offer financial incentives to help workers improve health. |
Entrepreneur
November 2008
Karen E. Spaeder |
All Well and Good A healthy workplace means keeping your employees' minds and bodies happy. |
Managed Care
April 2006
Lola Butcher |
Financial Incentives Increasingly Promote Healthy Lifestyles Fifty bucks to fill out a questionnaire, a discount on a membership at the gym -- these are some ways to get health plans are getting members to make a commitment to a healthy lifestyle. |
Managed Care
February 2008
Lola Butcher |
Wellness Programs: No Longer Just an Add-On In the face of stiff competition from a growing category of dedicated wellness companies, major health plans are launching sophisticated, ambitious programs to slake employers' thirst for these products |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008 |
The Win-Win of Wellness in the Workplace Even the simplest of programs offer clear benefits for companies and their employees. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Adrienne Selko |
Prescription for Survival: How to Control Healthcare Costs Are healthcare costs making you sick? Manufacturers are discovering that a healthy workforce is a cost-effective workforce. |
Managed Care
February 2008
John Carroll |
What's the ROI on Wellness? A few major corporations, sometimes with the assistance of a traditional health plan, have made significant efforts to improve employee lifestyles. |
Job Journal
January 13, 2008
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Wellness Benefits Bottom Line Employers are finally acting like healthy workers are good for business. |
CFO
February 15, 2006
Melissa Hennessy |
Putting a Premium on Health Employers are giving workers a new reason to get in shape: cash. Does this trend create a legal slippery slope of employers targeting anyone who might develop health problems? |
Entrepreneur
January 2007
Karen E. Spaeder |
2007 Shape-Up Take it from these experts - healthy choices benefit both your body and your bottom line. |
Inc.
January 2005
Bobbie Gossage |
Lose Weight, Get a Toaster Destiny Health, an insurer that offers consumer-driven health plans for small businesses, is now offering something called the Vitality program, which awards points to participants who take care of themselves. |
Managed Care
August 2004
MargaretAnn Cross |
Spend Money on Healthy People! The accepted insurance model is to provide care intended to make sick people well. There are new arguments that small investments in persuading people to live healthier lifestyles will result in large reductions in cost in later years. |
CFO
February 22, 2005
Ilan Mochari |
Belt-tightening Can coaxing employees to live healthy lives help keep the bottom line in shape? |
Fast Company
Jared Lindzon |
Why One-Size-Fits-All Health Initiatives Don't Work While most American companies continue to pursue one-size-fits-all corporate wellness engagements, some have already begun implementing a more personalized approach. |
Managed Care
November 2006
Lola Butcher |
Manipulating Deductibles To Foster Healthful Behavior Increasing employee deductible levels to encourage workers to be better health care consumers has become old hat. But how about this: tying an employee's deductible level to health status? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2005
Jennifer Juergens |
Recognize Reward Retain: The Three Rs of Performance Management A recent study affirms that incentive programs can boost performance up to 44% if conducted in ways that address all issues related to performance and human motivation. |
Inc.
April 2006
Dee Gill |
Get Healthy...Or Else Employers are getting a lot more serious about their wellness programs. But can you tell employees they're not allowed to smoke -- even at home? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2014
William Looney |
A Mission to Transform Mid-career students at Brown University's new Executive Masters in Healthcare Leadership program are challenging the status quo with workplace projects focused on one thing: removing the organizational silos. |
Fast Company
June 2010
Elaine Appleton Grant |
Next Health: Better Office Health Through Employee's Diet Can Zoe Finch Totten's whole-foods-only wellness system attack companies' health-care costs through employees' stomachs? |
Managed Care
April 2004
MargaretAnn Cross |
Medical Directors Find Themselves Working More Closely With Payers As large companies become more demanding of health plans, clinical executives are increasingly being relied on to provide advice and expertise. |
Insurance & Technology
November 18, 2009
Melanie Rodier |
Trizetto Launches Value-Based Benefits Solution The solution gives payer organizations the ability to customize benefits and other incentives for individual members based on their health status, chronic conditions and health and wellness activity. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2007
Jena McGregor |
Sweat More, Pay Less Principal Financial Group launched a health-care insurance product that asks participants with health risks to try to shape up or pay more. |
BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
Michelle Conlin |
Health Care: Human Resources Targets Your Family HR has yanked the junk food and badgered you to get healthy. Now it's eyeing your spouse and children |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Inveen & DePardo |
Paying to Fail The third of our quarterly features drawing on the 2009 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: People and Pay. |
Inc.
September 2008
Ralph Gaines |
Spotlight: Ralph Gaines, Bebetter Networks BeBetter Networks runs wellness programs. Its people show up at the workplace to take blood, check blood pressure, and gauge overall health and fitness levels. |
Food Processing
Lauren Swann |
Food and Beverage Market for Kids Growing Like a Weed By 2007, sales of kids' foods and beverages could reach as high as $38 billion or more. |
Managed Care
August 2007
Frank Diamond |
Employers Roll Up Their Sleeves No longer passive, companies are working in a variety of ways to improve employees' care. Preventive programs cost money up front, but can cut overall treatment costs to insurers by 30 percent or more, yet few insurers pay for preventive care. |
Managed Care
February 2008
John Marcille |
The Wellness Train Is Leaving; Are You on Board? Wellness is riding high, and health plans should consider using their expertise, data resources, and business connections to design programs that will appeal to buyers. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007 |
Wellness--Or Orwellness? A story about Scotts' controversial health-care plan provoked strong reactions. |
IndustryWeek
September 22, 2010 |
Pain Relief Health care cost increases may be inevitable, but strategies to promote a healthier workforce can eliminate some of the hurt. |
Managed Care
February 2007
Lola Butcher |
Biggest Health Care Purchasers Bullish on Care Management Businesses see care management, not cost shifting, as the most important trend in health coverage. |
Managed Care
February 2008
Frank Diamond |
You Will Live Healthily! Employers want to do everything within the law to make workers change their lifestyles, and they expect health plans to help |
Inc.
August 1, 2002
Christopher Caggiano |
Benefits: Taming the Health-Care Monster A new kind of insurance plan puts employees in the driver's seat. And the potential savings for company owners look awfully good as well. Could this be the answer to double-digit premium hikes? |
